May 14, 2013
New Arrivals · Poetry
These titles were recently added to the collection of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
Elegy owed
April 25, 2013
Hicok, Bob, 1960-
Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c2013.
ix, 111 p. ; 24 cm.
Pilgrimage -- Elegy with lies -- The days are getting longer -- O -- The story of 5:33 -- Knockturn -- Good-bye, topspin -- Elegy to hunger -- Coming to life -- Ode to magic -- Pre-planning -- L ah g -- Sound scape -- You name this one -- A request -- One of those things we say -- Making do -- The gift -- Listen -- A country mapped with invisible ink -- Elegy to unnamed sources -- The missing -- Some recent weather -- Born again -- Scarecrow overhears himself thinking -- Elegy's -- Desire -- Take care -- Obituary for the middle class -- Song of the recital -- Leave a message -- Blue prints -- What the great apes refer to as a philosophy of life -- The order of things -- How we came to live where we live -- The heart of the soul of the gist of the matter -- To speak somewhat figuratively for S. -- Absence makes the heart. That's it: absence makes the heart -- A very small bible -- Notes for a time capsule -- Another holiday has come and gone -- Ink -- Shed and dream -- You can never step into the same not going home again twice -- A poem that wanted to be a letter but didn't know how -- Owe is to ode as whatever is to I don't know -- Ode to ongoing -- Elegy to the time it takes to realize the futility of elegies -- Love -- Elegy ode -- Confessions of a nature lover -- Circles in the sky -- Something like an oath -- Elegy owed -- Missing -- As I was saying -- Speaking American -- Moving day -- Excerpts from mourning -- Life -- Sunny, infinite chance of rain -- In lieu of building a crib -- Equine aubade -- I tell myself the future -- Good-bye.
My life : and, My life in the nineties
April 23, 2013
Hejinian, Lyn.
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2013.
141 p. ; 21 cm.
My life -- My life in the nineties.
New and selected poems, 1962-2012
April 15, 2013
Simic, Charles, 1938-
355 pages ; 24 cm
Includes index.
from Selected early poems -- from Unending blues -- from The world doesn't end -- from The book of gods and devils -- from Hotel Insomnia -- from A wedding in Hell -- from Walking the black cat -- from Jackstraws -- from Night picnic -- from My noiseless entourage -- from That little something -- from Master of disguises -- from The voice at 3:00 a.m. -- New poems.
Westerly
April 15, 2013
Schutt, Will, 1981-
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2013.
xvi, 60 p. ; 23 cm.
Poems.
The golden road : poems
April 10, 2013
Hadas, Rachel.
Evanston, Ill. : TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, c2012.
ix, 80 p. ; 22 cm.
I. The pattern -- Plutarch on the plane -- On the ferry -- Nostos -- First persons -- Generic -- Complete Poussiniana -- Cranes -- No good deed -- The long way home -- The cloak -- Amphora -- The dream retriever -- II. The study -- Rear window -- Body of book -- Help -- The language of women -- Woman and girl -- In memoriam Rachel Wetzsteon, 1967-2009 -- The last glimpse -- The address book -- Etymology -- III. The onset -- The fortune-teller -- Between Brattleboro and Bellows Falls -- Valentine's Day -- Only so much -- Boston naming test -- Neurology floor -- Spring Sunday in the park -- The question -- Carl Schurz park -- Winding stair, lost sneaker, rising tide -- The book in the bag -- Macbeth -- Double bed -- New year -- Moons -- IV. Driving back with my son -- Host at last -- Joe's pond -- The swing -- Ballade on Pumpkin Hill -- The hammock -- The tall wet grass -- After the end of summer -- Storing the season -- Honey -- The golden road.
Women's poetry : poems and advice
April 10, 2013
Fried, Daisy.
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2013.
75 p. ; 23 cm.
Torment -- Women's poetry -- Midnight feeding -- Kissinger at the Louvre (three drafts) -- Thrash -- Econo motel, Ocean City -- Ippopotamo -- A snow woman -- This need not be a comment on death -- Lyric -- Stolen vehicle discovered at the junkyard -- Inside all this -- Il penseroso: the fat lady -- Elegy -- Liberalism -- Perpetual youth lost by humankind -- Metaphor for something, or solving the credit crunch -- His failed band, 1973 -- The spirit award -- Her failed band, 1982 -- L'allegro: driving home -- Attenti agli zingari. Odori, ospitalità ; Padlocks, suicidal ; Sunday morning, night ; Histories, umbrellas ; Shame and go home, 2004 ; Histories: 2000. July ; Song, 2007. Camp X-Ray cages ; Argento titano. Now dusk purple ; Batti batti le manine ; Rome and its night -- Ask the poetess: an advice column.
Rapture
April 10, 2013
Duffy, Carol Ann.
New York : Faber and Faber, 2013, c2005.
ix, 62 p. ; 21 cm.
The best of the best American poetry
April 1, 2013
New York : Scribner Poetry, 2013.
xxviii, 322 p. ; 22 cm.
"25th anniversary edition"
100 poems selected by Robert Pinsky that represent each volume in The best American poetry series.
An enlarged heart : a personal history
March 20, 2013
Zarin, Cynthia.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
ix, 221 p. ; 22 cm.
"This is a Borzoi book."
Real estate -- Sperlonga -- Curious yellow -- Curtains -- September -- An enlarged heart -- Coats -- Restaurants -- Mr. Ferri and the furrier -- Two pictures -- Going in -- Mary McCarthy's chest.
An Enlarged Heart, the exquisitely written prose debut from prize-winning poet Cynthia Zarin, is a poignantly understated exploration of the author's experiences with love, work, and the surprise of time's passage. In these intertwined episodes from her New York world and beyond, she charts the shifting and complicated parameters of contemporary life and family in writing that feels nearly fictional in its richness of scene, dialogue, and mood. The writer herself is the marvelously rueful character at the center of these tales, at first a bewildered young woman, navigating the terrain of new jobs and borrowed apartments and the rapidly fading New York of people like Mr. Ferri, the Upper East Side tailor ("a wren of a man with pins flashing in his teeth"). By the end, whether Zarin is writing about vanished restaurants, her decades-long love affair with her collection of coats, a newlywed journey to Italy, a child's illness, Mary McCarthy's file cabinet, or the inner life of the New Yorker staff she knew as a young woman, this history of the heart shows us how persistent the past is in returning to us with entirely new lessons, and that there are some truths not even a tailor can alter.--Publisher's description.
Pain, parties, work : Sylvia Plath in New York, summer 1953
March 18, 2013
Winder, Elizabeth.
New York : Harper, c2013.
xiv, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselle’s annual College Issue. She lived at the Barbizon Hotel, attended the ballet, went to a Yankees game, and danced at the West Side Tennis Club. She was supposed to be having the time of her life. But what would follow was, in Plath’s words, twenty-six days of pain, parties, and work, that ultimately changed the course of her life.
The world will follow joy : turning madness into flowers (new poems)
March 18, 2013
Walker, Alice, 1944-
xv, 191 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Poems.
The bees
March 6, 2013
Duffy, Carol Ann.
New York : Faber and Faber, 2013.
x, 84 p. ; 22 cm.
Poems.
The Bees is Duffy's clearest affirmation yet of her belief in the poem as "secular prayer," as the means by which we remind ourselves of what is most worthy of our attention and concern, our passion and our praise. Woven into and weaving through the book is its presiding spirit: the bee. Sometimes the bee is Diffy's subject; sometimes it strays into the poem or hovers at its edge--and the reader soon begins to anticipate its appearance.
The collected poems of Ai
February 27, 2013
Ai, 1947-2010.
464 pages ; 25 cm
All eight books by this American poet have been gathered in one volume.
Vice : Rapture -- False Witness -- Sleeping Beauty -- Charisma -- The Antihero -- Rwanda -- Stalking Memory -- The Paparazzi -- Afterschool Lessons from a Hitman -- Chance -- Knock, Knock -- Blood in the Water -- Back in the World -- Flashback -- Momento Mori -- Visitation -- Star Vehicle (My Senior Year in High School) -- Passing Through --
Countee Cullen : collected Poems / edited by Major Jackson.
February 27, 2013
Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946.
[New York] : Library of America, 2013.
xxv, 298 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
A major and sometimes controversial figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Countee Cullen fused a mastery of the formal lyric with a passionate engagement with themes social, religious, racial, and personal in such books as Color, Copper Sun, and The Black Christ. Certain of his poems-- "Heritage," "Yet Do I Marvel" -- are widely celebrated, but much of Cullen's work remains to be discovered. This volume restores to print a body of work of singular intensity and beauty
What I did there : new and selected poems
February 21, 2013
Hansel, Pauletta.
Loveland, Ohio : Dos Madres Press, c2011.
x, 83 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Poems.
During the recent extinctions : new and selected poems 1984-2012
February 21, 2013
Hague, Richard, 1947-
Loveland, Ohio : Dos Madres Press, 2012.
xiii, 278 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.
Poems
The Arcadia project : North American postmodern pastoral
February 19, 2013
Boise, Idaho : Ahsahta Press, 2012.
xxiii, 544 p. ; 24 cm.
Collected poems
February 19, 2013
Ceravolo, Joseph, 1934-
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2013.
xxxi, 560 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Taps on the walls : poems from the Hanoi Hilton
February 18, 2013
Borling, John.
x, 164 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
"A limited edition of this book was originally published as Poems for pilots (and other people)"--Title page verso.
Presents poems composed by the Air Force Major General and former prisoner of war who was held in the Hanoi military prison by the Viet Cong for eight years and conveyed his poems to his fellow prisoners through taps on the walls.
Religious poems
February 15, 2013
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1867 (Cambridge : Welch, Bigelow, & Co.)
iv, 107 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Copy in Genealogy & Local History Dept., Cincinnati Collection is signed by the author. Original green cloth.
Monks beginning to waltz
February 14, 2013
Looney, George, 1959-
Kirksville, Mo. : Truman State University Press, c2012.
x, 93 p. ; 22 cm.
I've been collecting this to tell you : poems
February 14, 2013
Ampleman, Lisa, 1979-
Kent : Kent State University Press, c2012.
vii, 27 p. ; 22 cm.
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